10 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 32.4 hrs on record (16.3 hrs at review time)
Posted: 19 Oct, 2015 @ 7:24pm

I enjoy it. Could it be better? Of course! It would be great to have more stuff to do, but I mean, really, how often do you find a game that you enjoy and say to yourself "Man, that was fun, glad it's over!"

If you enjoy Banished or games of it's ilk, you'll like Planetbase. If you're the type of person where once you've unlocked everything you feel like you're finished, than maybe wait for Planetbase to get like, Steam Workshop support or something (if that ever happens). As it stands, you can unlock all the buildings in your first colonly in about four hours with maybe 50 colonists, but there's so much more room on the planet.

There are some glaring rough spots, though. I've seen colonists walk miles outside the colony and die from lack of air because of goofy pathfinding. At close to 300 colonists, I seem to constantly get attacked by groups of nine or more hostile intruders, which end up killing a bunch of people before I can stop them. The intruders at this point feel like deathclaws from Fallout Shelter.

Anyway, like anything else, if you like this sort of thing, you'll like Planetbase. If you don't, you won't.
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